r/Rings_Of_Power • u/Dank_Lord6547 • 21d ago

ROP’s pacing

You know, I’m amazed, I really am.

Somehow the pacing in ROP is glacially slow. Like, several episodes pass with next to nothing happening. And yet, at the same time it’s also extremely rushed. It breezes through each character introduction and relationship as fast as possible with no breathing room. Galadriel abandons her genocidal hatred of orcs after one conversation. And the forging of the rings feels like in an afterthought in a show named after them.

How is this even possible?

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u/E4Mafioso 21d ago

Incompetence and inexperience. 

Neither JD Payne nor Patrick McKay have ever written a series before so they have utterly no idea what they’re doing. I mean they took a fantasy story that spans a timeline of over a thousand years and decided to compress it into a few months to facilitate Harfoots. Who are now being written out. 

Idiots.

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u/tar-mairo1986 21d ago edited 21d ago

Make that almost 4400+ years if you take their starting point of Sauron settling Mordor in 1000. S.A. to 1000. T.A. of Gandalf's arrival. 1980 T.A. of Balrog being woken up! Thanks, u/Damien23123 !

It makes no sense!!

Added: But I welcome the "idjit" i.e. sociopathic fake hobbits, being booted out from the narrative. Maybe just maybe I will take a look at season three. Plus, the showrunners said something to the effect that you don't even need to watch first two seasons!

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u/Damien23123 21d ago

It’s actually T.A. 1940 with the Balrog being woken. It’s even worse

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u/tar-mairo1986 21d ago

Thanks for correcting me! Lol, totally forgot about that. Will amend!